Law Enforcement “Requested” Shooting Targets of Pregnant Women
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
February 20, 2013
Law Enforcement Targets, Inc., a provider of shooting targets to the Department of Homeland Security, has admitted that targets depicting pregnant women were “requested” by law enforcement agencies.
As you can hear in the YouTube clip above, Blaine Cooper
enquired about the company’s “no hesitation” targets, which also
feature children, elderly gun owners and mothers in playgrounds, and was
told that the target showing a pregnant woman was a “requested law
enforcement target for training.”
The representative refused to answer why police would be
interested in training to shoot pregnant women, but went on to explain,
“unfortunately our world is made up of people, pregnant or otherwise,
that are gun owners not for the right reasons,” adding that the targets
were to “train police officers”.
The woman refused to give her name, accusing Cooper of
being “angry.” “Could you understand why I’m upset if the government is
trying to make targets to kill citizens – I don’t feel that’s right,” he
responded.
Cooper also makes reference to the DHS’ purchase of 2 billion bullets, “enough rounds to kill every citizen of the United States five times over.”
The representative also claims that the targets could be
used for “don’t shoot” training, which is somewhat dubious given that
they are called “no hesitation” targets and every single one of them is
described as a “threat” target in the product description.
The shooting targets, intended to “help the transition
for officers who are faced with these highly unusual targets for the
first time,” include “pregnant woman threat,” “older man with shotgun,”
“older man in home with shotgun,” “older woman with gun,” “young school
aged girl,” “young mother on playground,” and “little boy with real
gun.”
Our story yesterday about the targets caused outrage, crashing Law Enforcement Targets, Inc.’s website and leading the company to release a statement on Facebook inviting comment and criticism about the products.
LET Inc brags on its website that
it is a full service provider of training targets for the DHS, the
Justice Department and thousands of law enforcement agencies throughout
the country. The company has has racked up $5.5 million worth of contracts with the federal government, with almost $2 million dollars coming from Homeland Security.
Another customer who called the company claims he was
told that the targets were, “strictly for Department of Homeland
Security and other law enforcement agencies.”
Asked by Mike Riggs at Reason about
the targets, the company responded, “The subjects in NMH targets were
chosen in order to give officers the experience of dealing with deadly
force shooting scenarios with subjects that are not the norm during
training. I found while speaking with officers and trainers in the law
enforcement community that there is a hesitation on the part of cops
when deadly force is required on subjects with atypical age, frailty or
condition (one officer explaining that he enlarged photos of his own
kids to use as targets so that he would not be caught off guard with
such a drastically new experience while on duty). This hesitation time
may be only seconds but that is not acceptable when officers are losing
their lives in these same situations. The goal of NMH is to break that
stereotype on the range, regardless of how slim the chances are of
encountering a real life scenario that involves a child, pregnant woman,
etc. If that initial hesitation time can be cut down due to range
experience, the officer and community are better served.”
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Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Infowars.com and Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a host for Infowars Nightly News.
This article was posted: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 at 5:54 am
Tags: gun rights, police state
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